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Welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm Kara Price.

Last year before we went on break, I spoke with someone who has a job that I'm really obsessed with.

It's a job that I would probably want if I didn't do 10 other things.

And this guy said something that I think a lot of us agree with.

We're in a world that is changing really fast.

And like those, many of those changes are technological.

Many of them are social.

Many of them are political.

There's just a lot.

There's a lot of change in the world right now.

There's a lot of uncertainty.

That's Elliot Pepper.

And he's a science fiction writer.

And while many of us can drown

in the uncertainty of this very moment, Elliot seems to thrive in it. When he's not writing

science fiction novels, Elliot writes speculative fiction for technology companies. They like bring him

into ID8 on what the possible future could look like.

And then they use his stories to inspire new products or analyze the possible positive and negatives of developing a certain technology.

Regardless if it's about the future or not, fiction can sort of invite you into an aspect of the world that you had never

considered before and then can spur some kind of social change, whether that's a new law or

whether that's like a new product or like a new invention or a new way of like just approaching

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